Research Funding Scope and Amounts




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3. Targeted Research

Investment priority: Novel materials, manufacturing and applications

New products and services created by transforming materials and/or automating production, and improved efficiencies in production from new engineering tools or processes.

| Research question | Indicative funding
(excl GST) |
|------------------|-----------------------------|
| What new products and/or services can be created to increase the export potential for New Zealand businesses through R&D in:

(b) sensors that will reduce costs, increase accuracy, sensitivity and repeatability; or

(c) new materials with properties of good abrasion and hardness, and which will perform well under low temperatures and high pressure; or

(d) self-cleaning materials for food processing and agri-tech businesses; or

(e) biochemical materials; or

(f) coatings with properties such as ice repellency and conductivity (for example, for aeronautical applications); or

(g) new materials or material technology that will decrease the cost of goods? | Up to $2.0 million per annum for up to four years. |

Investment priority: Agri-technologies

New and emerging technologies based on New Zealand’s expertise in the agriculture and other primary sectors, particularly those technologies that exploit crossovers between agriculture and new materials, information and communications technologies and health technologies.

| Research question | Indicative funding
(excl GST) |
|------------------|-----------------------------|
| What new and emerging agri-technologies can be developed to increase New Zealand’s competitive advantage in the agriculture and primary sectors through R&D in:

(a) sensors for:

(i) internal imaging; or

(ii) high-speed composition analysis; or

(iii) detection of bacteria and pathogens; or

(b) multi-purpose robots; or

(c) multi-variate analysis, to better understand complex interactions in the New Zealand agricultural export chain? | Up to $2.0 million per annum for up to four years. |



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